Fans of Alias should be very excited about the upcoming spy thriller The Veil, starring Elisabeth Moss.
Moss, who has played many headstrong and intelligent women, is a perfect fit to pick up the mantle dropped by Sydney Bristow.
A trailer for the upcoming FX series reveals, "MI6 Agent Imogen Salter is used in very high-level situations, but she's known to be erratic and unpredictable."
Whether playing Peggy on Mad Men or June Osborne on The Handmaid's Tale, Moss has a knack for stepping into the shoes of erratic, unpredictable, highly competent, intelligent women who often put their male counterparts to shame.
Starring Moss, FX's The Veil is a spy thriller that explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.
One woman has a secret, and the other has a mission...
Moss, who has played many headstrong and intelligent women, is a perfect fit to pick up the mantle dropped by Sydney Bristow.
A trailer for the upcoming FX series reveals, "MI6 Agent Imogen Salter is used in very high-level situations, but she's known to be erratic and unpredictable."
Whether playing Peggy on Mad Men or June Osborne on The Handmaid's Tale, Moss has a knack for stepping into the shoes of erratic, unpredictable, highly competent, intelligent women who often put their male counterparts to shame.
Starring Moss, FX's The Veil is a spy thriller that explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.
One woman has a secret, and the other has a mission...
- 3/21/2024
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Steven Knight is currently one of the busiest writers in Hollywood. He’s gearing up to start production on a new “Peaky Blinders” movie starring Cillian Murphy while also writing the upcoming “Star Wars: The New Jedi Order,” which is set to see Daisy Ridley reprising her role as Rey.
But before either of those projects bear fruit, fans of Knight’s writing can look forward to his new show “The Veil.” The FX on Hulu limited series stars Elisabeth Moss as a spy who finds herself caught up in a web of secrets in a globe-trotting espionage series.
“The Veil” stars Elisabeth Moss, Yumma Marwan, Alec Secareanu, Thibault de Montalembert, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, James Purefoy, Josh Charles, Joana Ribeiro, Phill Langhorne, Dan Wyllie, Aron von Andrian, and Dali Benssalah.
According to the official synopsis, the show “explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women (Moss and Yumna Marwan) who...
But before either of those projects bear fruit, fans of Knight’s writing can look forward to his new show “The Veil.” The FX on Hulu limited series stars Elisabeth Moss as a spy who finds herself caught up in a web of secrets in a globe-trotting espionage series.
“The Veil” stars Elisabeth Moss, Yumma Marwan, Alec Secareanu, Thibault de Montalembert, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, James Purefoy, Josh Charles, Joana Ribeiro, Phill Langhorne, Dan Wyllie, Aron von Andrian, and Dali Benssalah.
According to the official synopsis, the show “explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women (Moss and Yumna Marwan) who...
- 3/21/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The Handmaid’s Tale traveled outside the confines of Gilead for much of season five, expanding the story of June Osborne, played by Elisabeth Moss, after her escape from the totalitarian society at the center of the Hulu series. The first two episodes, in fact, picked up in Canada in the 24 hours after the show’s most violent act yet, when June led her fellow handmaid’s in the brutal murder of her former abuser, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes).
And those episodes, both directed by Moss, kicked off the tone of the entire penultimate season, explain cinematographer Nicola Daley, costume designer Leslie Kavanagh and composer Adam Taylor in a THR Presents panel, powered by Vision Media. Particularly when the double-episode premiere ended with June’s abducted daughter Hannah (Jordana Blake) being used as a pawn by June’s Gilead nemesis Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) during the worldwide broadcast of Fred’s funeral.
And those episodes, both directed by Moss, kicked off the tone of the entire penultimate season, explain cinematographer Nicola Daley, costume designer Leslie Kavanagh and composer Adam Taylor in a THR Presents panel, powered by Vision Media. Particularly when the double-episode premiere ended with June’s abducted daughter Hannah (Jordana Blake) being used as a pawn by June’s Gilead nemesis Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) during the worldwide broadcast of Fred’s funeral.
- 6/15/2023
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Five seasons into its run, "The Handmaid's Tale" has now outpaced both the book on which it's based and the presidency it was so aptly born into. Now, the show is finally set to end with its sixth season, which will close the book on some of its central stories while others could still continue on in a sequel saga that's already been greenlit, titled "The Testaments."
If you've made it this far into "The Handmaid's Tale," you know that the world of Gilead is probably too bleak and morally shady to get a straightforward happy ending, but that still won't stop fans from wondering about exactly how the story of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) will come to a close. The fifth season ended on an intriguing note in November, with a plot that has June and her baby separated from everyone she knows — except her former tormenter Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and her own baby.
If you've made it this far into "The Handmaid's Tale," you know that the world of Gilead is probably too bleak and morally shady to get a straightforward happy ending, but that still won't stop fans from wondering about exactly how the story of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) will come to a close. The fifth season ended on an intriguing note in November, with a plot that has June and her baby separated from everyone she knows — except her former tormenter Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and her own baby.
- 12/29/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
The Handmaid’s Tale fans all have the same question on their lips after the season five finale.
On Monday (19 December), Channel 4 aired the concluding instalment of the latest season, one day after the penultimate was broadcast.
Naturally, viewers are now wondering whether the show will return for a sixth season – and if so, when it will premiere.
Will there be a Handmaid’s Tale season 6?
The good news is that the show, an adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel, will indeed return for another batch of episodes. However, it will be the last.
Elisabeth Moss will reprise her role of June Osborne one final time, showrunner Bruce Miller told Deadline.
“It has been a true honour to tell the story of Margaret Atwood’s groundbreaking novel and chillingly relevant world, and we are thrilled to bring viewers a sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale,” Miller said.
On Monday (19 December), Channel 4 aired the concluding instalment of the latest season, one day after the penultimate was broadcast.
Naturally, viewers are now wondering whether the show will return for a sixth season – and if so, when it will premiere.
Will there be a Handmaid’s Tale season 6?
The good news is that the show, an adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel, will indeed return for another batch of episodes. However, it will be the last.
Elisabeth Moss will reprise her role of June Osborne one final time, showrunner Bruce Miller told Deadline.
“It has been a true honour to tell the story of Margaret Atwood’s groundbreaking novel and chillingly relevant world, and we are thrilled to bring viewers a sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale,” Miller said.
- 12/20/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Click here to read the full article.
[This story contains spoilers from the season five finale of The Handmaid’s Tale.]
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It’s been nearly a week since The Handmaid’s Tale released its finale. And Madeline Brewer, who has played fiery handmaid Janine on the Hulu dystopian series for all five seasons, is in London preparing for a nightly performance in the West End revival of Cabaret.
“Right now I’m doing theater in the West End, which I’ve wanted to do my whole life, and this character has an abortion as well,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter, drawing a line from the iconic Sally Bowles, who she will play on stage through the end of January, to Janine, who just wrapped her season five story on a cliffhanger.
[This story contains spoilers from the season five finale of The Handmaid’s Tale.]
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It’s been nearly a week since The Handmaid’s Tale released its finale. And Madeline Brewer, who has played fiery handmaid Janine on the Hulu dystopian series for all five seasons, is in London preparing for a nightly performance in the West End revival of Cabaret.
“Right now I’m doing theater in the West End, which I’ve wanted to do my whole life, and this character has an abortion as well,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter, drawing a line from the iconic Sally Bowles, who she will play on stage through the end of January, to Janine, who just wrapped her season five story on a cliffhanger.
- 11/22/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christine Baranski‘s surprise inclusion for “The Good Fight” wasn’t the only shocker that last year’s Best Drama TV Actress Golden Globe lineup delivered. After being left out for the third season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” two years earlier, Elisabeth Moss returned to the category for its fourth installment. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which had shut out Season 3 of the Hulu drama across the board, had seemingly moved on from the show and rarely invites people back to the party after dropping them for a regular series. The fact that Moss was able to overcome all these hurdles is a feather in her cap, and the reason you shouldn’t be caught off guard if she now pulls off yet another nomination, for Season 5, despite facing much stiffer competition this time around.
In hindsight, the actor’s return to the TV drama actress lineup shouldn’t have been that surprising at all.
In hindsight, the actor’s return to the TV drama actress lineup shouldn’t have been that surprising at all.
- 11/16/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
The Performer | Andy Serkis
The Show | Disney+’s Andor
More from TVLineAndor's First 2 Episodes to Air on ABC, FX and Freeform for ThanksgivingThe Good Fight Series Finale: The Nuclear War Subplot That Wasn'tThe Crown's Finale Sets Sail for a Whole New Era -- Plus, Grade Season 5
The Episode | “One Way Out” (Nov. 9, 2022)
The Performance | “No one is getting out!”
With those five, roared words, Andy Serkis shifted Kino Loy into a whole new gear, and Disney+’s Rogue One prequel series truly kicked off a thrilling prison break.
Up until this point — or, more precisely, the close of last week,...
The Show | Disney+’s Andor
More from TVLineAndor's First 2 Episodes to Air on ABC, FX and Freeform for ThanksgivingThe Good Fight Series Finale: The Nuclear War Subplot That Wasn'tThe Crown's Finale Sets Sail for a Whole New Era -- Plus, Grade Season 5
The Episode | “One Way Out” (Nov. 9, 2022)
The Performance | “No one is getting out!”
With those five, roared words, Andy Serkis shifted Kino Loy into a whole new gear, and Disney+’s Rogue One prequel series truly kicked off a thrilling prison break.
Up until this point — or, more precisely, the close of last week,...
- 11/12/2022
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
One of the most iconic moments in the history of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” took place in the second episode of Season 5, when Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) returned to Gilead to host the funeral for her late husband, Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). As the show’s new costume designer Leslie Kavanagh explains in Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts panel, the funeral had to be “a real showstopper” because of what it meant for Gilead as a burgeoning nation. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Kavanagh reveals, “At the time when when shot the funeral it was the biggest undertaking of all of the seasons of the show, for the sheer amount of numbers of background and cast that were in full Gilead attire from head to toe. So that was a big challenge for us in the costume department, dressing everybody.”
SEEWill Yvonne Strahovski get the awards recognition...
Kavanagh reveals, “At the time when when shot the funeral it was the biggest undertaking of all of the seasons of the show, for the sheer amount of numbers of background and cast that were in full Gilead attire from head to toe. So that was a big challenge for us in the costume department, dressing everybody.”
SEEWill Yvonne Strahovski get the awards recognition...
- 11/10/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
This post contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Season 5 finale.
Remember Fred’s grandiose Gilead funeral in Episode 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale‘s just-wrapped season? With the marchers and the coffin and the procession that filled multiple streets, that hour was the largest production the show had ever pulled off… until this week’s season finale. Series star/executive producer Elisabeth Moss directed both.
More from TVLineThe Handmaid's Tale EP Answers Burning Q: Why Was Samira Wiley's Moira Barely in Season 5?The Handmaid's Tale Boss Breaks Down That Final Finale Shot, [Spoiler] and [Spoiler]'s New Shared MisfortuneThe Handmaid's Tale...
Remember Fred’s grandiose Gilead funeral in Episode 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale‘s just-wrapped season? With the marchers and the coffin and the procession that filled multiple streets, that hour was the largest production the show had ever pulled off… until this week’s season finale. Series star/executive producer Elisabeth Moss directed both.
More from TVLineThe Handmaid's Tale EP Answers Burning Q: Why Was Samira Wiley's Moira Barely in Season 5?The Handmaid's Tale Boss Breaks Down That Final Finale Shot, [Spoiler] and [Spoiler]'s New Shared MisfortuneThe Handmaid's Tale...
- 11/10/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
June Osborne, Our Lady of Perpetual Can’t a Girl Catch a Frickin’ Break?!, gets run over by a car in The Handmaid’s Tale’s Season 5 finale. And somehow, that’s the least painful development in her life during this week’s episode.
By the time the hour goes to black, June has once more lost her husband and is moving farther away from her daughter in Gilead. But she’s gained one hell of a travel partner: Serena, who winds up on the same refugee transport as June and Nichole.
More from TVLineThe Handmaid's Tale EP Answers Burning Q:...
By the time the hour goes to black, June has once more lost her husband and is moving farther away from her daughter in Gilead. But she’s gained one hell of a travel partner: Serena, who winds up on the same refugee transport as June and Nichole.
More from TVLineThe Handmaid's Tale EP Answers Burning Q:...
- 11/9/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 Episode 10.
Season five’s tagline was “Some sins can’t be washed away”, but it could have been the words June delivered in this finale: “America wasn’t Gilead until it was, and then it was too fucking late.” That was this season’s warning, and its justification for telling a story so bleak that our hero just got chased out of the sanctuary, and away from the husband, she’d spent four seasons striving to reach.
If this show wasn’t making such a valid and timely protest with June’s storyline, it’d be pure sadism by this point. June’s more than earned a happy ending, but the potential of using her character to dramatize the asylum experience was too great to let her rest yet. Thus, the Handmaid’s tale becomes the refugee’s tale; June’s story...
Season five’s tagline was “Some sins can’t be washed away”, but it could have been the words June delivered in this finale: “America wasn’t Gilead until it was, and then it was too fucking late.” That was this season’s warning, and its justification for telling a story so bleak that our hero just got chased out of the sanctuary, and away from the husband, she’d spent four seasons striving to reach.
If this show wasn’t making such a valid and timely protest with June’s storyline, it’d be pure sadism by this point. June’s more than earned a happy ending, but the potential of using her character to dramatize the asylum experience was too great to let her rest yet. Thus, the Handmaid’s tale becomes the refugee’s tale; June’s story...
- 11/9/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Elisabeth Moss on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Cliffhanger Finale and How to Interpret Her Final Expression
Click here to read the full article.
[This story contains major spoilers from the season five finale of The Handmaid’s Tale, “Safe.”]
After beginning its current season with the smirk seen ’round the globe, The Handmaid’s Tale ended with another telling expression.
The fifth season of Hulu’s dystopian series began by pitting June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) against Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski). At the end of the two-episode premiere, Serena had brought June’s Gilead-captive daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), into view during a global broadcast of the funeral for her late husband, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) — and shot the camera a knowing smirk intended for June. Thousands of miles away in Canada, June received the message loud and clear.
But the world of The Handmaid’s Tale moves quickly and, by the pivotal seventh episode, June was faced with the impossible choice of helping Serena deliver her newborn baby or letting her die when the pair were stranded together in No Man’s Land,...
[This story contains major spoilers from the season five finale of The Handmaid’s Tale, “Safe.”]
After beginning its current season with the smirk seen ’round the globe, The Handmaid’s Tale ended with another telling expression.
The fifth season of Hulu’s dystopian series began by pitting June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) against Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski). At the end of the two-episode premiere, Serena had brought June’s Gilead-captive daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), into view during a global broadcast of the funeral for her late husband, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) — and shot the camera a knowing smirk intended for June. Thousands of miles away in Canada, June received the message loud and clear.
But the world of The Handmaid’s Tale moves quickly and, by the pivotal seventh episode, June was faced with the impossible choice of helping Serena deliver her newborn baby or letting her die when the pair were stranded together in No Man’s Land,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spoiler Alert: The story below reveals major plot points from Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 finale.
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale wrapped up its fifth season tonight and while a lot has changed for June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), the season ends in ways similar to how it all began.
When viewers first meet June, she is torn apart from her husband Luke (O-t Fagbenle) and the life they shared with their daughter Hannah—a scene that’s imitated in the Season 5 finale. June and her daughter Nichole board a train for an unknown future in Hawaii as Luke is arrested by the authorities.
His arrest is unfair considering Luke was saving his wife from a man attempting to kill her by running her over in his truck but here we are—the world is crumbling. It’s worth noting the hired hitman was sent by Gilead to dispose of...
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale wrapped up its fifth season tonight and while a lot has changed for June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), the season ends in ways similar to how it all began.
When viewers first meet June, she is torn apart from her husband Luke (O-t Fagbenle) and the life they shared with their daughter Hannah—a scene that’s imitated in the Season 5 finale. June and her daughter Nichole board a train for an unknown future in Hawaii as Luke is arrested by the authorities.
His arrest is unfair considering Luke was saving his wife from a man attempting to kill her by running her over in his truck but here we are—the world is crumbling. It’s worth noting the hired hitman was sent by Gilead to dispose of...
- 11/9/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
[The story contains spoilers from the ninth episode of season five of The Handmaid’s Tale.]
Bradley Whitford recalls a key tip he received when directing his first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The script is often lying, he was told by creator and showrunner Bruce Miller. And as a director, it was his job to tell the truth.
For his first episode behind the camera — the ninth episode and penultimate hour of season five, “Allegiance” — the actor who plays Gilead Commander Lawrence was tasked with seeking out the truth about his own character. For the past couple episodes, Lawrence has been trying to convince June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) to return to Gilead — the oppressive regime and country she escaped — and live in New Bethlehem, a modernized, liberal island settlement where refugees can return with amnesty and reunite with lost family and friends. A step in the right direction, he says, to help redeem himself...
[The story contains spoilers from the ninth episode of season five of The Handmaid’s Tale.]
Bradley Whitford recalls a key tip he received when directing his first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The script is often lying, he was told by creator and showrunner Bruce Miller. And as a director, it was his job to tell the truth.
For his first episode behind the camera — the ninth episode and penultimate hour of season five, “Allegiance” — the actor who plays Gilead Commander Lawrence was tasked with seeking out the truth about his own character. For the past couple episodes, Lawrence has been trying to convince June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) to return to Gilead — the oppressive regime and country she escaped — and live in New Bethlehem, a modernized, liberal island settlement where refugees can return with amnesty and reunite with lost family and friends. A step in the right direction, he says, to help redeem himself...
- 11/3/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warning: this review contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale.
Last episode, Hannah was coming home, Lawrence was June’s trusted friend, and Serena was steeling herself to play the long game with the Wheelers. All change! Now, Serena’s back on the run, Lawrence and June are over, and Hannah’s still across the border.
Across the border, but not as distant as before. Episode nine’s most vital scene was the silent one that solved the Hannah mystery. All season, the girl’s been paraded in front of us, an obedient, pristine product of the Gilead system. We’ve seen her dutifully present flowers to the Widow Waterford, and heard her kidnappers/parents the Mackenzies describe her as an angel from heaven who couldn’t be more different from the devil June Osborne.
Well guess what, Mackenzies? Your kid’s no angel. She’s a chip off the old block!
Last episode, Hannah was coming home, Lawrence was June’s trusted friend, and Serena was steeling herself to play the long game with the Wheelers. All change! Now, Serena’s back on the run, Lawrence and June are over, and Hannah’s still across the border.
Across the border, but not as distant as before. Episode nine’s most vital scene was the silent one that solved the Hannah mystery. All season, the girl’s been paraded in front of us, an obedient, pristine product of the Gilead system. We’ve seen her dutifully present flowers to the Widow Waterford, and heard her kidnappers/parents the Mackenzies describe her as an angel from heaven who couldn’t be more different from the devil June Osborne.
Well guess what, Mackenzies? Your kid’s no angel. She’s a chip off the old block!
- 11/2/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Most actors can be proud to say they've embodied one all-time-great TV character in their lifetime, but by my count, Elisabeth Moss has played at least four. In the late '90s and early aughts, she was Zoey Bartlet, the president's daughter on "The West Wing." A year after that series ended, she started her run on "Mad Men," where her ad writer Peggy Olson became a more beloved character than most any of the show's titular men. Finally, she took on two tough-as-nails roles, first as traumatized detective Robin in "Top of the Lake," and then as hero June Osborne in the dystopian series "The Handmaid's Tale."
It's a stacked small-screen career, one that seems like it doesn't leave much breathing room for the Emmy winner. But according to the actress herself, great projects are hard to resist. Moss appeared on the Smartless podcast this week, where she spoke...
It's a stacked small-screen career, one that seems like it doesn't leave much breathing room for the Emmy winner. But according to the actress herself, great projects are hard to resist. Moss appeared on the Smartless podcast this week, where she spoke...
- 11/1/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg sent a pretty strong message on Monday, using her Halloween costume for the show to advocate for abortion rights.
The theme of this year’s holiday episode was “iconic TV characters,” with each host dressing up as a character they love from throughout the decades. Sunny Hostin dressed as the queen from “Bridgerton,” Alyssa Farah Griffin showed up as Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the City,” host Joy Behar appeared as Peggy Bundy from “Married With Children,” Ana Navarro dressed as Charo from “The Love Boat” and Sara Haines arrived as Catherine O’Hara’s character Moira Rose from “Schitt’s Creek.”
To round out the group, Goldberg dressed as June Osborne from “The Handmaids Tale.” Emblazoned on the back of her red cloak was a series of phrases: “My body, My morals, My life, My Choice, Not Yours.”
The View
You can watch her entrance in the video above.
The theme of this year’s holiday episode was “iconic TV characters,” with each host dressing up as a character they love from throughout the decades. Sunny Hostin dressed as the queen from “Bridgerton,” Alyssa Farah Griffin showed up as Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the City,” host Joy Behar appeared as Peggy Bundy from “Married With Children,” Ana Navarro dressed as Charo from “The Love Boat” and Sara Haines arrived as Catherine O’Hara’s character Moira Rose from “Schitt’s Creek.”
To round out the group, Goldberg dressed as June Osborne from “The Handmaids Tale.” Emblazoned on the back of her red cloak was a series of phrases: “My body, My morals, My life, My Choice, Not Yours.”
The View
You can watch her entrance in the video above.
- 10/31/2022
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
The future depends on June Osborne.
It always has, but never quite like this.
The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Episode 8 finds an emerging nation and one on which the sun is setting, placing June front and center in their plans for survival.
June has never wavered in her true goal, which is to reunite with her daughter at all costs.
Now, both Gilead and what remains of the United States see June's true value. Where she goes, others will follow.
She's a symbol of the resistance. If she returns to Gilead, even the newly minted Hong Kong of Gilead, New Bethlehem, it will be the final nail in America's coffin.
Only one nation will win June's allegiance, and that's the one that reunites her with Hannah.
June has had a very tough time in Canada because she promised herself and Hannah that she would never leave her daughter behind.
Now that she has two daughters,...
It always has, but never quite like this.
The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Episode 8 finds an emerging nation and one on which the sun is setting, placing June front and center in their plans for survival.
June has never wavered in her true goal, which is to reunite with her daughter at all costs.
Now, both Gilead and what remains of the United States see June's true value. Where she goes, others will follow.
She's a symbol of the resistance. If she returns to Gilead, even the newly minted Hong Kong of Gilead, New Bethlehem, it will be the final nail in America's coffin.
Only one nation will win June's allegiance, and that's the one that reunites her with Hannah.
June has had a very tough time in Canada because she promised herself and Hannah that she would never leave her daughter behind.
Now that she has two daughters,...
- 10/26/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
For the first time in a long time – basically four full seasons – an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale has left me feeling hopeful for the fate of June Osborne. In the season four finale, she and her ragtag group of rebels – all refugees from Gilead – banded together to kill Fred Waterford, a man so consistently evil that no viewer will miss him whatsoever, not even a little.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
- 10/24/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
For the first time in a long time – basically four full seasons – an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale has left me feeling hopeful for the fate of June Osborne. In the season four finale, she and her ragtag group of rebels – all refugees from Gilead – banded together to kill Fred Waterford, a man so consistently evil that no viewer will miss him whatsoever, not even a little.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
- 10/23/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
Click here to read the full article.
[This story contains spoilers to the seventh episode of The Handmaid’s Tale‘s fifth season, “No Man’s Land.”]
“I’m they’re handmaid… it’s like I’m you.”
The Handmaid’s Tale viewers have waited a long time for Serena Joy Waterford to get her due.
Finally, in the seventh episode of the penultimate season of Hulu’s Emmy-winning series, that moment of payoff arrived when Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) went into labor and had no one to help her but her former handmaid, and current enemy, June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss).
The episode, “No Man’s Land,” forces the dystopian series’ warring women into an intimate barn setting where June, torn at the idea of helping her former abuser, ultimately coaches Serena through the birth of her first child, baby boy Noah, son of the late Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). The childbirth scene is primal and intimate and prompts the women...
[This story contains spoilers to the seventh episode of The Handmaid’s Tale‘s fifth season, “No Man’s Land.”]
“I’m they’re handmaid… it’s like I’m you.”
The Handmaid’s Tale viewers have waited a long time for Serena Joy Waterford to get her due.
Finally, in the seventh episode of the penultimate season of Hulu’s Emmy-winning series, that moment of payoff arrived when Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) went into labor and had no one to help her but her former handmaid, and current enemy, June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss).
The episode, “No Man’s Land,” forces the dystopian series’ warring women into an intimate barn setting where June, torn at the idea of helping her former abuser, ultimately coaches Serena through the birth of her first child, baby boy Noah, son of the late Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). The childbirth scene is primal and intimate and prompts the women...
- 10/21/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For better or worse, “The Handmaid’s Tale” just dropped one of its most scream-worthy episodes ever.
Season 5’s “No Man’s Land,” written by Rachel Shukert and directed by Natalia Leite, focuses on one location and its characters: June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena (Yvonna Strahovski), who just went into labor somewhere between Gilead and Canada. There’s a lot to scream about in this episode — especially if you’re Serena — from the tense birthing sequence to the shifting dynamics between these two women and what it all means. “The Handmaid’s Tale” is generally a show worth screaming over, where women have no rights and June’s self-righteous hero complex regularly hurts as many people as it helps.
Here are 22 times I screamed during “No Man’s Land,” in the order that they occurred.
1. Serena very clearly going into labor in the intro
In retrospect, I don’t know what outcome I could...
Season 5’s “No Man’s Land,” written by Rachel Shukert and directed by Natalia Leite, focuses on one location and its characters: June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena (Yvonna Strahovski), who just went into labor somewhere between Gilead and Canada. There’s a lot to scream about in this episode — especially if you’re Serena — from the tense birthing sequence to the shifting dynamics between these two women and what it all means. “The Handmaid’s Tale” is generally a show worth screaming over, where women have no rights and June’s self-righteous hero complex regularly hurts as many people as it helps.
Here are 22 times I screamed during “No Man’s Land,” in the order that they occurred.
1. Serena very clearly going into labor in the intro
In retrospect, I don’t know what outcome I could...
- 10/20/2022
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
The Handmaid's Tale is firing on all cylinders.
It's always a notch above when it becomes more singularly focused, and The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Episode 7 was beautifully written and acted, with Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski reminding us of how June and Serena are deeply intertwined.
This also reflects on the power of motherhood, which Gilead has both resurrected and torn asunder.
Keeping the fire alive between June and Serena has been imperative to the series, and Moss and Strahovski do some of their best work sharing scenes.
"No Man's Land" took the two women on a full journey, and for the first time, Serena began to understand, if only a little, what she had helped perpetuate with Gilead's insanity when it comes to motherhood.
View Slideshow: 17 Times Labor Went Above and Beyond the Pain
Beginning with June's exasperation that Serena was in labor, "Are you in fucking labor? Of course,...
It's always a notch above when it becomes more singularly focused, and The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Episode 7 was beautifully written and acted, with Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski reminding us of how June and Serena are deeply intertwined.
This also reflects on the power of motherhood, which Gilead has both resurrected and torn asunder.
Keeping the fire alive between June and Serena has been imperative to the series, and Moss and Strahovski do some of their best work sharing scenes.
"No Man's Land" took the two women on a full journey, and for the first time, Serena began to understand, if only a little, what she had helped perpetuate with Gilead's insanity when it comes to motherhood.
View Slideshow: 17 Times Labor Went Above and Beyond the Pain
Beginning with June's exasperation that Serena was in labor, "Are you in fucking labor? Of course,...
- 10/19/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Get in, loser: We’re going to subvert a theocracy?
Ok, that’s not exactly the gist of what happens at the end of this week’s very exciting Handmaid’s Tale. But we do have Serena killing someone who was about to kill June, then ordering June to hop in a car with her and drive. So, until next week’s episode proves me wrong, I’m going to live in a fantasy world in which Mrs. Waterford and the Artist Formerly Known as Offred pull some Thelma & Louise-type shenanigans.
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Ok, that’s not exactly the gist of what happens at the end of this week’s very exciting Handmaid’s Tale. But we do have Serena killing someone who was about to kill June, then ordering June to hop in a car with her and drive. So, until next week’s episode proves me wrong, I’m going to live in a fantasy world in which Mrs. Waterford and the Artist Formerly Known as Offred pull some Thelma & Louise-type shenanigans.
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- 10/13/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 episode 5 ‘Fairytale’.
Serena Waterford didn’t want a Handmaid. A younger woman in your home for your husband to impregnate – what wife would? In Season 5 episode ‘Fairytale’, The Handmaid’s Tale flashed back to the early days of Gilead, when the Commanders’ Wives were still apprehensive about the Handmaid system.
We saw Naomi Putnam and Serena walk the glass-lined corridors of a prison for Gilead’s kidnapped children and wrinkle their noses at what was on display. Like prospective pet owners, they didn’t want to adopt a scruffy rescue – who could say where it’s been or what genetic time bombs are hidden in there waiting to go off? They wanted a pure pedigree new-born to mold from day one.
When nature wouldn’t provide one, the Handmaid system became a reluctant necessity, and so it was off to Aunt Lydia to shop for the perfect womb.
Serena Waterford didn’t want a Handmaid. A younger woman in your home for your husband to impregnate – what wife would? In Season 5 episode ‘Fairytale’, The Handmaid’s Tale flashed back to the early days of Gilead, when the Commanders’ Wives were still apprehensive about the Handmaid system.
We saw Naomi Putnam and Serena walk the glass-lined corridors of a prison for Gilead’s kidnapped children and wrinkle their noses at what was on display. Like prospective pet owners, they didn’t want to adopt a scruffy rescue – who could say where it’s been or what genetic time bombs are hidden in there waiting to go off? They wanted a pure pedigree new-born to mold from day one.
When nature wouldn’t provide one, the Handmaid system became a reluctant necessity, and so it was off to Aunt Lydia to shop for the perfect womb.
- 10/5/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Thirty-plus years into her career, Elisabeth Moss is still without an individual Screen Actors Guild Award. A 17-time nominee, she has won twice as part of the “Mad Men” ensemble (2009-10) but lost all seven of her solo nominations, of which she earned two for “Mad Men” and four for Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” for Best TV Drama Actress, and one for “Top of the Lake” (2014) for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress. Now contending for “Handmaid’s'” Season 5, will she finally be sent the good weather she has long deserved from SAG-AFTRA voters?
Securing the nomination might be the biggest hurdle for the actor, who faces stiff competition in the race for Best TV Drama Actress and is currently in eighth place in our combined odds. In pole position is Imelda Staunton, who will be taking over the role of the recently deceased Queen Elizabeth II...
Securing the nomination might be the biggest hurdle for the actor, who faces stiff competition in the race for Best TV Drama Actress and is currently in eighth place in our combined odds. In pole position is Imelda Staunton, who will be taking over the role of the recently deceased Queen Elizabeth II...
- 9/29/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale up to Season 5 Episode 3
After spending many seasons mired in the casual cruelties of Gilead, our protagonist June Osborne finally made it to the comparatively safe shores of Canada, where she has been granted asylum. However, as longtime fans of The Handmaid’s Tale will know, safety is never a promise in this dystopian world, and even at a distance, Gilead is an ever-present threat. With her daughter, Hannah, born before the Gilead regime, still trapped behind the border, June is walking a razor blade on which any mistake on her part might lead to her daughter’s harm. As of Season 5’s first three episodes, we see that even physically safe, Hannah is still under threat, which has shaken any sense of calm June may have had.
Though the end of Season 4 showed June orchestrating the graphically violent murder of Fred Waterford, the...
After spending many seasons mired in the casual cruelties of Gilead, our protagonist June Osborne finally made it to the comparatively safe shores of Canada, where she has been granted asylum. However, as longtime fans of The Handmaid’s Tale will know, safety is never a promise in this dystopian world, and even at a distance, Gilead is an ever-present threat. With her daughter, Hannah, born before the Gilead regime, still trapped behind the border, June is walking a razor blade on which any mistake on her part might lead to her daughter’s harm. As of Season 5’s first three episodes, we see that even physically safe, Hannah is still under threat, which has shaken any sense of calm June may have had.
Though the end of Season 4 showed June orchestrating the graphically violent murder of Fred Waterford, the...
- 9/26/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 episode 3.
The major criticism you could level at The Handmaid’s Tale between seasons two and four was its halting progress. Forward movement was repeatedly compromised by a narrative need to keep our perspective character in Gilead. For June to witness and participate in each of the regime’s sick new twists, she had to stay put and stay alive. That meant miraculous recoveries, stymied escape attempts and a general sense that whatever cataclysmic event happened in an episode, the status quo would quickly resume (possibly the only thing this show has in common with The Simpsons).
When June reached Canada, the rusty gears finally started to move. Propulsion! Permanence! There was certainly no coming back from the dead for Fred. This story was now more than just an extremely well-filmed and well-observed safari of human suffering. It was actually going somewhere.
Somewhere backwards,...
The major criticism you could level at The Handmaid’s Tale between seasons two and four was its halting progress. Forward movement was repeatedly compromised by a narrative need to keep our perspective character in Gilead. For June to witness and participate in each of the regime’s sick new twists, she had to stay put and stay alive. That meant miraculous recoveries, stymied escape attempts and a general sense that whatever cataclysmic event happened in an episode, the status quo would quickly resume (possibly the only thing this show has in common with The Simpsons).
When June reached Canada, the rusty gears finally started to move. Propulsion! Permanence! There was certainly no coming back from the dead for Fred. This story was now more than just an extremely well-filmed and well-observed safari of human suffering. It was actually going somewhere.
Somewhere backwards,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
For decades, television has been unrelenting in its attempts to freshen the lens with which we see doctors, lawyers, and cops. Yet the concept of making a comedy about underfunded schools in America? Pretty much unheard of. That was until the 2021 debut of breakout mockumentary, Abbott Elementary, created by and starring the joyful Quinta Brunson.
The hilarious, endearing sitcom, which returns to US network ABC for its second season tonight, follows a motley group of determined Philadelphian educators whose primary goal – despite an abysmal lack of resources – is to provide their elementary students with dedicated support and a decent education. Or, as Brunson’s young and peppy Ms Janine Teagues puts it, “To make sure students come out alive”.
All of this remains an unfortunate reality for teachers in the US public school system, which is equivalent to the UK’s government-run state schools. So to finally see the frightening...
The hilarious, endearing sitcom, which returns to US network ABC for its second season tonight, follows a motley group of determined Philadelphian educators whose primary goal – despite an abysmal lack of resources – is to provide their elementary students with dedicated support and a decent education. Or, as Brunson’s young and peppy Ms Janine Teagues puts it, “To make sure students come out alive”.
All of this remains an unfortunate reality for teachers in the US public school system, which is equivalent to the UK’s government-run state schools. So to finally see the frightening...
- 9/21/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
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[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode premiere of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.]
A smirk and a growl.
Those were the dueling images The Handmaid’s Tale left for viewers when it returned.
The smirk came from Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), with the once-reigning Gilead wife enjoying her winning moment when, during a global broadcast of her late husband’s funeral, she brings Hannah (Jordana Blake) into her televised appearance. And the growl came from June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), who was on the receiving end of that message, as she watched her pre-teen daughter being used as a pawn.
But the actresses who play the starring women on Hulu’s Emmy-winning dystopian series say those physical reactions are just the tip of the iceberg as the show begins its penultimate season.
“The June v. Serena concept is not going to be as simple as you may think,” Elisabeth Moss, who also directed the first two episodes,...
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode premiere of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.]
A smirk and a growl.
Those were the dueling images The Handmaid’s Tale left for viewers when it returned.
The smirk came from Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), with the once-reigning Gilead wife enjoying her winning moment when, during a global broadcast of her late husband’s funeral, she brings Hannah (Jordana Blake) into her televised appearance. And the growl came from June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), who was on the receiving end of that message, as she watched her pre-teen daughter being used as a pawn.
But the actresses who play the starring women on Hulu’s Emmy-winning dystopian series say those physical reactions are just the tip of the iceberg as the show begins its penultimate season.
“The June v. Serena concept is not going to be as simple as you may think,” Elisabeth Moss, who also directed the first two episodes,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Click here to read the full article.
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode premiere of season five of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.]
“Everything tastes better when Fred is dead.”
June Osborne speaks those words while sitting at a diner and having a celebratory meal, to the tune of Dolly Parton’s “Gettin’ Happy.” The irony of the uplifting vibe is that Elisabeth Moss’ starring character — who is in a state of shock after leading the violent group murder of her former commander and abuser, Gilead leader Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), as is evidenced by his dried blood remaining caked on her face and hands — only finds a fleeting moment of happiness while in the eatery with her fellow former handmaids.
“They’re just going to town and eating as much food as they can, and it’s sort of bacchanal. They’re feasting like warriors,” Moss, who also directed the premiere episode “Morning,” told The Hollywood Reporter when speaking about the diner scene,...
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode premiere of season five of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.]
“Everything tastes better when Fred is dead.”
June Osborne speaks those words while sitting at a diner and having a celebratory meal, to the tune of Dolly Parton’s “Gettin’ Happy.” The irony of the uplifting vibe is that Elisabeth Moss’ starring character — who is in a state of shock after leading the violent group murder of her former commander and abuser, Gilead leader Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), as is evidenced by his dried blood remaining caked on her face and hands — only finds a fleeting moment of happiness while in the eatery with her fellow former handmaids.
“They’re just going to town and eating as much food as they can, and it’s sort of bacchanal. They’re feasting like warriors,” Moss, who also directed the premiere episode “Morning,” told The Hollywood Reporter when speaking about the diner scene,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The last time we saw The Handmaid’s Tale’s June Osborne, she’d led a pack of former handmaids to help her murder Commander Fred Waterford in the woods. With Fred’s blood drying on her hands, she returned home and crept into her daughter’s nursery to hold little Nichole for the last time before going on the lam or surrendering to the authorities — it wasn’t clear which. Either way: June knew the jig was up.
So in the Season 5 premiere, she’s shocked to find out that, actually, the jig will go on as scheduled! Nothing to see here!
So in the Season 5 premiere, she’s shocked to find out that, actually, the jig will go on as scheduled! Nothing to see here!
- 9/14/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
For the first time in a long time – basically four full seasons – an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale has left me feeling hopeful for the fate of June Osborne. In the season four finale, she and her ragtag group of rebels – all refugees from Gilead – banded together to kill Fred Waterford, a man so consistently evil that no viewer will miss him whatsoever, not even a little.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
- 9/14/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski are going head-to-head in Season 5 of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The inevitable showdown has been brewing for four seasons, and both actresses agree that it was only a matter of time before the two women reached their breaking points.
“Lizzie and I joke that it’s the Juliet and Juliet love affair that we have,” Strahovski told TheWrap of their characters’ relationship. “We call it the romance, because it feels like that. It feels like a completely dysfunctional, toxic romance that they just keep going back to.”
At the end of Season 4, Moss’ June Osborne led a legion of Handmaid regufees to kill Commander Fred Waterford, leaving Strahovski’s Serena Joy a widow. In doing so, June believed that she was making both of them pay, and taking only a fraction of what’s been taken from her during her forced servitude in Gilead.
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“Lizzie and I joke that it’s the Juliet and Juliet love affair that we have,” Strahovski told TheWrap of their characters’ relationship. “We call it the romance, because it feels like that. It feels like a completely dysfunctional, toxic romance that they just keep going back to.”
At the end of Season 4, Moss’ June Osborne led a legion of Handmaid regufees to kill Commander Fred Waterford, leaving Strahovski’s Serena Joy a widow. In doing so, June believed that she was making both of them pay, and taking only a fraction of what’s been taken from her during her forced servitude in Gilead.
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- 9/14/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Ever since we met June Osborne in season one of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s unrelentingly dark adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, hers has been a life of unbroken tragedy. Her daughters were abducted. Her husband was missing and maybe even dead. She spent years in sex slavery before making a gruelling escape to Canada.
How cathartic it was, then, to see her finally exact revenge during season four’s brutal denouement. June chases Commander Fred Waterford into the woods, where she and a group of refugee handmaids tear her former captor to pieces. June bites his face and severs his finger, which she later posts to his wife. In the series’ grisly vernacular, this is what victory looks like.
Or at least it should be a victory. Yet on The Handmaid’s Tale, returning for a fifth season today, women never win. June, played with restless menace by Elisabeth Moss,...
How cathartic it was, then, to see her finally exact revenge during season four’s brutal denouement. June chases Commander Fred Waterford into the woods, where she and a group of refugee handmaids tear her former captor to pieces. June bites his face and severs his finger, which she later posts to his wife. In the series’ grisly vernacular, this is what victory looks like.
Or at least it should be a victory. Yet on The Handmaid’s Tale, returning for a fifth season today, women never win. June, played with restless menace by Elisabeth Moss,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
Warning: contains major spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4.
June Osborne getting out of Gilead was season four’s major move forward. After several failed and rejected escape attempts over the seasons, June finally stepped foot on Canadian soil and claimed asylum. She reunited with her loved ones and was safe. Except, as season four explored, we bring our trauma with us. You can take the girl out of Gilead, but you can’t take the Gilead out of the girl. June may have been in the bosom of her family – Luke, Moira, baby Nichole – but her suffering was such that healing was still a long way off. First: she needed revenge.
Season four was all about revenge. It started with June encouraging a young rape survivor to stab one of her multiple abusers to death, and ended with June and a pack of former-Handmaid wolves tearing Fred Waterford to shreds.
June Osborne getting out of Gilead was season four’s major move forward. After several failed and rejected escape attempts over the seasons, June finally stepped foot on Canadian soil and claimed asylum. She reunited with her loved ones and was safe. Except, as season four explored, we bring our trauma with us. You can take the girl out of Gilead, but you can’t take the Gilead out of the girl. June may have been in the bosom of her family – Luke, Moira, baby Nichole – but her suffering was such that healing was still a long way off. First: she needed revenge.
Season four was all about revenge. It started with June encouraging a young rape survivor to stab one of her multiple abusers to death, and ended with June and a pack of former-Handmaid wolves tearing Fred Waterford to shreds.
- 9/14/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
For the first time in a long time – basically four full seasons – an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale has left me feeling hopeful for the fate of June Osborne. In the season four finale, she and her ragtag group of rebels – all refugees from Gilead – banded together to kill Fred Waterford, a man so consistently evil that no viewer will miss him whatsoever, not even a little.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
In the season five premiere, it appears all but certain that June is going to get away with the bloodthirsty crime, despite her best and most aggravating efforts to get the Canadians to prosecute her. June is so frustratingly June sometimes.
“Everything tastes better when Fred’s dead”
The episode picks up where season four left off, with June (Elisabeth Moss) having just realised her promise to kill Fred. She’s in some kind of fugue where nothing and no one but her baby daughter Nichole exists.
- 9/14/2022
- by Amanda Whiting
- The Independent - TV
The wait is finally over for “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 5. The celebrated Hulu series returned in September to continue the saga of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and her fight against the oppressive Gilead regime. And the new batch of episodes follows on the heels of a game-changing Season 4 finale when June finally got to dole out brutal justice on her longtime tormenter, Fred (Joseph Fiennes).
Season 5 also promises a new battle between June and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), as June’s former captor relishes in her miracle pregnancy while processing the death of her husband and navigating the increasingly complicated international politics of Gilead.
There’s a lot to look forward to, so if you’re eager to know exactly when you can see new episodes, we’ve assembled a handy guide to the Season 5 release schedule and what time new episodes air.
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Season 5 also promises a new battle between June and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), as June’s former captor relishes in her miracle pregnancy while processing the death of her husband and navigating the increasingly complicated international politics of Gilead.
There’s a lot to look forward to, so if you’re eager to know exactly when you can see new episodes, we’ve assembled a handy guide to the Season 5 release schedule and what time new episodes air.
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- 9/13/2022
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
In the age of streaming, it’s becoming easier and easier for shows to get away with having a sub-par theme song.
No matter what is on the screen, it’s likely that those opening credits are getting texted through or, thanks to Netflix’s “skip credits” feature, ignored altogether.
This doesn’t mean that there’s not a subtle art behind the TV theme song, however. As audience’s attention spans grow shorter, a piece of music that both embodies the ethos of a show and grabs the viewer by the ears is actually more important than ever before.
Click through the gallery to below for the greatest TV theme songs of all time:
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It’s time for June Osborne to start winning in The Handmaid’s Tale...
No matter what is on the screen, it’s likely that those opening credits are getting texted through or, thanks to Netflix’s “skip credits” feature, ignored altogether.
This doesn’t mean that there’s not a subtle art behind the TV theme song, however. As audience’s attention spans grow shorter, a piece of music that both embodies the ethos of a show and grabs the viewer by the ears is actually more important than ever before.
Click through the gallery to below for the greatest TV theme songs of all time:
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It’s time for June Osborne to start winning in The Handmaid’s Tale...
- 9/11/2022
- by Kieran Read
- The Independent - TV
June Osborne's unrelenting nightmare will soon end one way or another: Hulu has renewed dystopian series "The Handmaid's Tale" for a sixth and final season. The news was announced as the cast - including its fearless leader, Elisabeth Moss - attended the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the forthcoming season five premiere on Sept. 14.
Based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name, "The Handmaid's Tale" first premiered in 2017 and received countless accolades over the years, including two Golden Globes and 15 Emmys. In fact, the very first season took home the Emmy for outstanding drama series.
"It's been a very, very, very luxurious time that I've had to think about what happens at the end of this story and exactly how we'd like to get there as a company," series creator Bruce Miller told The Hollywood Reporter. "Dropping the curtain the way you want is such a huge privilege.
Based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name, "The Handmaid's Tale" first premiered in 2017 and received countless accolades over the years, including two Golden Globes and 15 Emmys. In fact, the very first season took home the Emmy for outstanding drama series.
"It's been a very, very, very luxurious time that I've had to think about what happens at the end of this story and exactly how we'd like to get there as a company," series creator Bruce Miller told The Hollywood Reporter. "Dropping the curtain the way you want is such a huge privilege.
- 9/9/2022
- by Kelsey Garcia
- Popsugar.com
The Handmaid’s Tale cast and crew were out in force at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday evening for the world premiere of the two first episodes of Season 5 ahead of their release on Hulu in the U.S. on September 14.
In a Q&a after the screening, creator Bruce Miller announced that a sixth and final season had been greenlit.
Miller was joined onstage by executive producer Warren Littlefield as well as lead actress Elisabeth Moss, who directs this season, and other key cast members Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Bradley Whitford, O-t Fagbenle, Amanda Brugel and Sam Jaeger.
“It’s an honor to be showing it here in Toronto, where we shot the show,” said Moss, adding that Season 5 had been the hardest one to make so far due to its bigger scale and the challenge of shooting over the winter during the Covid pandemic.
Picking up from...
In a Q&a after the screening, creator Bruce Miller announced that a sixth and final season had been greenlit.
Miller was joined onstage by executive producer Warren Littlefield as well as lead actress Elisabeth Moss, who directs this season, and other key cast members Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, Bradley Whitford, O-t Fagbenle, Amanda Brugel and Sam Jaeger.
“It’s an honor to be showing it here in Toronto, where we shot the show,” said Moss, adding that Season 5 had been the hardest one to make so far due to its bigger scale and the challenge of shooting over the winter during the Covid pandemic.
Picking up from...
- 9/9/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Poster for Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 5 (Photo Courtesy of Hulu)
Hulu’s officially announced The Handmaid’s Tale has been renewed for season six. The streaming service confirmed the critically acclaimed – and, unfortunately, way too timely – drama will end with the sixth season.
Season five is set to premiere on September 14, 2022 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes arrive on the following Wednesdays.
Elisabeth Moss returns to lead the cast as June Osborne. Season five also stars Bradley Whitford, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, O-t Fagbenle, Samira Wiley, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, and Sam Jaeger. Alexis Bledel (“Emily/Ofglen”) left the series after season four.
Hulu also confirmed The Handmaid’s Tale sequel The Testaments is still in development under series creator, executive producer, and showrunner Bruce Miller. Written by Margaret Atwood and released in 2019, The Testaments is narrated by Aunt Lydia and is set 15 years...
Hulu’s officially announced The Handmaid’s Tale has been renewed for season six. The streaming service confirmed the critically acclaimed – and, unfortunately, way too timely – drama will end with the sixth season.
Season five is set to premiere on September 14, 2022 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes arrive on the following Wednesdays.
Elisabeth Moss returns to lead the cast as June Osborne. Season five also stars Bradley Whitford, Yvonne Strahovski, Max Minghella, O-t Fagbenle, Samira Wiley, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, and Sam Jaeger. Alexis Bledel (“Emily/Ofglen”) left the series after season four.
Hulu also confirmed The Handmaid’s Tale sequel The Testaments is still in development under series creator, executive producer, and showrunner Bruce Miller. Written by Margaret Atwood and released in 2019, The Testaments is narrated by Aunt Lydia and is set 15 years...
- 9/9/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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The Handmaid’s Tale is preparing to write its final chapter.
The Emmy-winning Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale has been renewed for a sixth season — praise be! — but the sixth run will also be the final one for the Elisabeth Moss-starrer. The news of the series ending comes one week before the fifth season’s debut (on Sept. 14), with the premiere set to pick up after the epic cliffhanger that released in June of 2021.
“It’s been a very, very, very luxurious time that I’ve had to think about what happens at the end of this story and exactly how we’d like to get there as a company,” creator, showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller tells The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive interview about the drama’s forthcoming conclusion. “I’m very glad we’re being able to...
The Handmaid’s Tale is preparing to write its final chapter.
The Emmy-winning Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale has been renewed for a sixth season — praise be! — but the sixth run will also be the final one for the Elisabeth Moss-starrer. The news of the series ending comes one week before the fifth season’s debut (on Sept. 14), with the premiere set to pick up after the epic cliffhanger that released in June of 2021.
“It’s been a very, very, very luxurious time that I’ve had to think about what happens at the end of this story and exactly how we’d like to get there as a company,” creator, showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller tells The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive interview about the drama’s forthcoming conclusion. “I’m very glad we’re being able to...
- 9/8/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Over two decades of TV, the burden placed on Elisabeth Moss’ face would leave a lesser actor permanently disfigured. “Mad Men” pushed Peggy from a surprise pregnancy through bitter battles with a bitchy boss. “Top of the Lake” cast her as a sexual assault specialist. Hell, even “The West Wing” put President Bartlet’s daughter, Zoey, through a traumatic kidnapping plot. And then there’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a show that could’ve been titled, “How To Endure Oppression.” For five seasons (so far), June Osborne has been the audience’s envoy into a world of overt misogyny, casual torture, and emotional anguish, which makes Moss’ visage our primary translator of oft-unimaginable depravity. Reed Morano, the Emmy-winning Season 1 director and series’ visual tone-setter, recognized that framing June’s plight via extreme close-ups and long, lingering shots could utilize the intimacy afforded by television to build a deeper connection to a dystopian story.
- 9/8/2022
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) feels no remorse for killing the monster who took away her country in the trailer for The Handmaid’s Tale season five. June not only admits to killing the founding father of Gilead, but she also confesses she “loved it so much.”
The trailer also confirms an epic battle between June and Serena Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) is in store for season five.
In addition to Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski, season five stars Bradley Whitford, Max Minghella, O-t Fagbenle, Samira Wiley, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, and Sam Jaeger. Alexis Bledel (“Emily/Ofglen”) is not returning for the new season.
The Handmaid’s Tale season five will premiere on Hulu on September 14, 2022 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes will follow on Wednesdays.
The critically acclaimed series is based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood. Bruce Miller created the series and serves as...
The trailer also confirms an epic battle between June and Serena Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) is in store for season five.
In addition to Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski, season five stars Bradley Whitford, Max Minghella, O-t Fagbenle, Samira Wiley, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, and Sam Jaeger. Alexis Bledel (“Emily/Ofglen”) is not returning for the new season.
The Handmaid’s Tale season five will premiere on Hulu on September 14, 2022 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes will follow on Wednesdays.
The critically acclaimed series is based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood. Bruce Miller created the series and serves as...
- 8/24/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Click here to read the full article.
Elisabeth Moss has booked another series at Hulu, with an assist from FX.
The Emmy-winning Handmaid’s Tale star will topline an FX-produced thriller called The Veil. Moss will also be an executive producer of the limited series, which comes from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
“We’re excited to continue our partnership with Steven Knight on The Veil and thrilled to have Elisabeth Moss sign on for the lead role,” said Nick Grad, president original programming at FX. “Steven’s scripts are riveting and no doubt will showcase Elisabeth’s exceptional talent.”
The Veil will focus on the fraught relationship between two women who, according to the show’s logline, “play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.
Elisabeth Moss has booked another series at Hulu, with an assist from FX.
The Emmy-winning Handmaid’s Tale star will topline an FX-produced thriller called The Veil. Moss will also be an executive producer of the limited series, which comes from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
“We’re excited to continue our partnership with Steven Knight on The Veil and thrilled to have Elisabeth Moss sign on for the lead role,” said Nick Grad, president original programming at FX. “Steven’s scripts are riveting and no doubt will showcase Elisabeth’s exceptional talent.”
The Veil will focus on the fraught relationship between two women who, according to the show’s logline, “play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.
- 8/2/2022
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale," an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel, is nothing short of a horror story. Set in the aftermath of a second civil war, the story follows a theonomic government's establishment of a totalitarian hierarchical regime that is rooted in religious fanaticism. In the state of Gilead, women are stripped of their rights and are enslaved, with the patriarchal government forcing them to surrender to ritualized rape. Whether or not you've seen the show, you've heard whispers of it. The red robes and white bonnets are hard to miss.
Actress Elisabeth Moss leads the series as June Osborne...
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Actress Elisabeth Moss leads the series as June Osborne...
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- 7/26/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Praise be, “The Handmaid’s Tale” is back for Season 5.
The Hulu drama series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel returns September 14, picking up after ex-handmaid June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) killed Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). Waterford’s wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) seeks revenge.
The teaser for Season 5 shows a flashback to Commander Waterford being chased by handmaids through the woods, with Emily Malek (Alexis Bledel) among those attacking him. June (Moss) is then seen washing blood off her hands. “I want her to know it was me,” June says, referencing Serena who begins plotting a mission against June.
Max Minghella, O-t Fagbenle, Ann Dowd, and more round out the cast. Bledel previously announced she will not be appearing in Season 5 “after much thought.”
Since premiering in 2017, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has earned 75 Emmy Award nominations and 15 wins, including acting trophies for Moss, Dowd, Bledel, Bradley Whitford, and Samira Wiley.
Moss...
The Hulu drama series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel returns September 14, picking up after ex-handmaid June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) killed Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). Waterford’s wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) seeks revenge.
The teaser for Season 5 shows a flashback to Commander Waterford being chased by handmaids through the woods, with Emily Malek (Alexis Bledel) among those attacking him. June (Moss) is then seen washing blood off her hands. “I want her to know it was me,” June says, referencing Serena who begins plotting a mission against June.
Max Minghella, O-t Fagbenle, Ann Dowd, and more round out the cast. Bledel previously announced she will not be appearing in Season 5 “after much thought.”
Since premiering in 2017, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has earned 75 Emmy Award nominations and 15 wins, including acting trophies for Moss, Dowd, Bledel, Bradley Whitford, and Samira Wiley.
Moss...
- 7/15/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale was filming the last two episodes of its upcoming fifth season in Toronto on Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in Washington D.C., stripping American women of their federal right to have an abortion. As protestors gathered outside the court building, some were wearing the Handmaid’s costume from the series, a familiar sight over the last couple of years as the outfit has become a symbol of women’s fight to protect their reproductive rights.
“We’ve said many times over a number of years we would love to be less relevant, but sadly, the show’s been hauntingly relevant. And today appears even more so,” Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield said in an interview Friday night. “I think we all wish that we were this bizarre, dystopian, no-one-would-ever-believe-this concept. We all wish that we were a made-up graphic novel.
“We’ve said many times over a number of years we would love to be less relevant, but sadly, the show’s been hauntingly relevant. And today appears even more so,” Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield said in an interview Friday night. “I think we all wish that we were this bizarre, dystopian, no-one-would-ever-believe-this concept. We all wish that we were a made-up graphic novel.
- 6/25/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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